GAME DAY: Vancouver Canucks @ Ottawa Senators - 7:30pm ET - Thu. Feb. 4. 2010

TeamRenzo wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

TeamRenzo wrote:

N4L wrote:Wait until he actually has a decent amount of NHL expierence to go along with his tallent along with Karlsson. Elliott is the real deal and always has been.

Let's be reasonable here, Elliot is playing lights right now. Before Brodeur stepped in he was brutal.

How long will it last?

Even if it stopped right now, it's been 9 games already. Good enough for me.

I've also been a proponent of Elliott from Day One. His movement in goal is pure textbook. Size and talent are the active ingredients that make him a legitimate NHLer.

I am by no means criticizing Elliot, but some people need to manage their expectations.

How is saying he's a legitimate NHLer not managing expectations? Are you suggesting he's not even legitimate NHL material yet? He never said number 1 goalie or top 10 in the league or any nonsense like that.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

TeamRenzo wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

TeamRenzo wrote:

N4L wrote:Wait until he actually has a decent amount of NHL expierence to go along with his tallent along with Karlsson. Elliott is the real deal and always has been.

Let's be reasonable here, Elliot is playing lights right now. Before Brodeur stepped in he was brutal.

How long will it last?

Even if it stopped right now, it's been 9 games already. Good enough for me.

I've also been a proponent of Elliott from Day One. His movement in goal is pure textbook. Size and talent are the active ingredients that make him a legitimate NHLer.

I am by no means criticizing Elliot, but some people need to manage their expectations.

How is saying he's a legitimate NHLer not managing expectations? Are you suggesting he's not even legitimate NHL material yet? He never said number 1 goalie or top 10 in the league or any nonsense like that.

No sorry that isn't want I meant, far from it. I didn't mean to imply that he needed to manage his expectations. But there have been a few "caught up in the moment" comments.

Sorry guys, not trying to ruin anyones fun!

SeawaySensFan wrote:

rooneypoo wrote:

Devo wrote:Dare I say it, but I think we may have to start looking at a Kovalev Appreciation thread. He's clearly been one of our top 3 forwards for this run of 11 games....

This is the guy Murray offered 5 million to, and while I admit I expected the 3 games on 2 games off Kovalev, I'm absolutely thrilled that he's committed to the team and system for these 11 games. I feel bad for him that he hasn't scored more, because last night alone he should have had 2 maybe 3.

Agreed. Kovalev has been stellar for us for about 2 solid months now, in fact. I'm loving the way he's been playing. The effort / compete level is there, for the most part, shift in and shift out. He's a little snake bitten at the moment, put he's still producing -- those goals will come.

How exciting is the thought of potentially having 5 20+ goal-scorers on this team?

Alfie, Michalek, Fisher, Spezza, Kovalev

Hopefully we're a trade away from having 6.

You and your trade hopes. The team is clicking on all cylinders. Why do you always want to mess with a good thing?

OTT is a team that should make no more than one or two depth moves, at most. An upgrade Campoli or Picard, sure, but I don't know about anything else. An extra forward only if it he can score and comes pretty cheap. We're really deep at forward tho' -- with Foligno out, Donovan sitting, and Z. Smith just waiting to play full time with this team.

No trading of 1sts or significant prospects. I'll do SJS's 2nd + O'Brien at MOST for any rental. Maybe Lee. Maybe some lesser prospects whose name I don't even know. That's it. If we're going to compete against the WASs, PITs, and NJs of our division, we have to do it with the team we have now -- bringing in a rental player 1/8th of Kovalchuk's/Crosby's/Ovechkin's skill is not about to tilt the balance of power.

rooneypoo wrote:You and your trade hopes. The team is clicking on all cylinders. Why do you always want to mess with a good thing?

OTT is a team that should make no more than one or two depth moves, at most. An upgrade Campoli or Picard, sure, but I don't know about anything else. An extra forward only if it he can score and comes pretty cheap. We're really deep at forward tho' -- with Foligno out, Donovan sitting, and Z. Smith just waiting to play full time with this team.

No trading of 1sts or significant prospects. I'll do SJS's 2nd + O'Brien at MOST for any rental. Maybe Lee. Maybe some lesser prospects whose name I don't even know. That's it. If we're going to compete against the WASs, PITs, and NJs of our division, we have to do it with the team we have now -- bringing in a rental player 1/8th of Kovalchuk's/Crosby's/Ovechkin's skill is not about to tilt the balance of power.

P.S.

TeamRenzo wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

TeamRenzo wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

TeamRenzo wrote:

N4L wrote:Wait until he actually has a decent amount of NHL expierence to go along with his tallent along with Karlsson. Elliott is the real deal and always has been.

Let's be reasonable here, Elliot is playing lights right now. Before Brodeur stepped in he was brutal.

How long will it last?

Even if it stopped right now, it's been 9 games already. Good enough for me.

I've also been a proponent of Elliott from Day One. His movement in goal is pure textbook. Size and talent are the active ingredients that make him a legitimate NHLer.

I am by no means criticizing Elliot, but some people need to manage their expectations.

How is saying he's a legitimate NHLer not managing expectations? Are you suggesting he's not even legitimate NHL material yet? He never said number 1 goalie or top 10 in the league or any nonsense like that.

No sorry that isn't want I meant, far from it. I didn't mean to imply that he needed to manage his expectations. But there have been a few "caught up in the moment" comments.

Sorry guys, not trying to ruin anyones fun!

Not caught up in the momment at all. Ive been syaing for years Elliott will be a number 1 in this league and a legit number 1. Elliott is basically a rookie still who had to find the consistancy all young goaltenders do. Took Flurry 3 or 4 years, Price and Mason cant find their game, Halak was brought up much the same way Elliott was and is looking very solid.

Elliott has every single tool to be a star and people are starting to take serious notice.

Karlsson not expected back until after the Olympic break:
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Ottawa/2010/02/05/12758561-qmi.html

(that's 5 games)

marakh wrote:

TeamRenzo wrote:

N4L wrote:Wait until he actually has a decent amount of NHL expierence to go along with his tallent along with Karlsson. Elliott is the real deal and always has been.

Let's be reasonable here, Elliot is playing lights right now. Before Brodeur stepped in he was brutal.

How long will it last?

No, he was one of the best players on this team in the 5 game losing streak.

I think both Leclaire and Elliot both had save% under .900, granted the team in front of him was crap but they were equally as crappy in front of Leclaire.

Having a save percentage under 90% is not accpetable for a #1 tender.

Also, Clouston said in an interview that the biggest differnce with the Sens from when the were on their l;osing streak to when they started to win was goaltending

OUps forget about that, I thought we were talking about karlsson
Elliott was not very good before the Rangers game.